A five-digit Current Procedural Terminology code identifying a procedure or service performed by a clinician.
In drug billing the CPT code answers a different question from the J-code: the J-code says what was given, the CPT code says how it was given. An infusion of a chemotherapy agent needs both.
CPT is copyrighted by the American Medical Association. Med-Code describes what CPT codes are used for in its own words and does not reproduce AMA descriptor text.